A Meditation For The Moments You Want To Run Away

This meditation guides you into a gentle, grounded space where you can meet your discomfort with compassion instead of resistance. Rather than pushing difficult emotions away, you’ll learn to sit with them, honor them, and allow their energy to soften and transform. Through breath, awareness, and acceptance, you’ll create space for whatever arises—tension, sadness, fear, or uncertainty—and witness how presence naturally begins to shift the experience.

This practice supports emotional resilience, inner calm, and the deep healing that occurs when we simply allow ourselves to be with what is.

The song on this track is: Fjalldrommar by Center of Attention.

Transcript

Today,

On Struck Inside Out,

A meditation on sitting with discomfort.

Close your eyes.

Take a deep breath.

Let your body settle into the surface beneath you.

Notice where discomfort lives in your body.

Maybe there is tension in your shoulders,

A tightness in your chest,

A knot in your stomach.

You don't need to fix it right now.

You don't need to push it away.

You just need to notice it.

Allow the emotion to rise.

Name it if you can,

If it's anger,

Sadness,

Fear,

Frustration,

Or any other emotion that is weighing on you.

Let it be here.

Let it have space.

Breathe into it and feel it without judgment.

Notice that even in the intensity,

You are still here.

You are still breathing,

Still moving,

Still capable.

You can hold this.

You can allow it.

Imagine the energy of this discomfort as something fluid,

Like water,

Like wind.

It doesn't need to break you.

It can flow through you.

You can guide it.

You can release it.

You can transmute it into strength,

Clarity,

Creativity,

Or compassion.

With every inhale,

Gather awareness.

With every exhale,

Release resistance.

With every breath,

Remind yourself,

I am bigger than this moment.

I am capable of holding myself.

I am capable of learning from this feeling.

See if you can soften around it.

See if you can invite curiosity.

What is this emotion trying to tell me?

Where does it want to move?

What does it want me to understand about myself?

Take a few more breaths here.

Let the discomfort transform,

Even slightly,

Into energy you can work with,

Explore,

Or release.

Let it remind you of your resilience,

Your courage,

Your capacity to feel fully and still stand tall.

Take another deep breath,

And whenever you're ready,

Gently open your eyes and carry this awareness with you.

Carry the understanding that discomfort is not your enemy.

It is a teacher,

A signal,

An invitation,

And you are always capable of navigating it,

Of transforming it,

Of moving through it with grace.

Reviews

Not sure it was your intent, but you helped me to realize that I've been over-identifying with my emotions, and maybe my thoughts, too. I am one whole, body, mind, heart, soul, but also those distinct parts. Many slices of one pie. (Cherry, I hope!) I ask myself the simple question, How am I? And the answers are several. Physically, I’m in a little pain (good pain!) from yesterday’s exercise class, I’m well rested, not hungry. Mentally, I’m feeling sane and well. Spiritually, I’m awake, aware, and elevated. But emotionally, I’m drained, stressed, angered, bitter, and intensely uncomfortable. Lately, I’ve been letting those emotional states, that emotional slice that is a part of the pie that is me, drive the bus. (Forgive that horrid mixed metaphor!) I have been thinking that the emotional me is me, when it’s but a part of me. And maybe, like water flowing around me, it’s not even the real and true me. (The Spirit, Awake and One with All.) Though I shouldn’t deny my feelings, I also should not allow them to overshadow the truth of who I am. The whole damned pie, not just a couple rotten cherries. Thank you!